Today we’re launching an URGENT action calling on MPs to vote against @s_guilbeault's Bill C-10 - the most serious attack on freedom of expression online in Canada we’ve seen in years, and a genuine Internet emergency: action.openmedia.org/page/81358/act…
Last Friday, the federal government shocked experts and the public by removing exemptions for user content from C-10, bringing every video, audio clip and picture that people in Canada upload to online platforms under the broadcast regulation of the CRTC: thestar.com/politics/feder…
What does that mean? It means giving the CRTC breathtakingly broad powers to remove, censor, hide, tax and otherwise interfere with the audiovisual content that makes the modern Internet what it is. See @mgeist’s analysis here: michaelgeist.ca/2021/04/guilbe…